Georgia’s unemployment rate remained unchanged last month at 3.4%, the state Department of Labor reported Thursday. The Peach State’s jobless rate was half of a percentage point below the national unemployment rate.
Both the labor force and number of employed Georgians hit all-time highs at 5.35 million and 5.17 million respectively. But the number of jobs fell by 1,100 in October. There are more than 83,000 job listings on the Department of Labor’s website with health care at over 14,000 openings, sales at 11,000, hospitality, food, and tourism at 8,100, business management and operations at 7,800, and IT with about 5,800 openings posted.
